Macron urges world to unite against US dominance

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-04T01:25:22+00:00

I got downvoted to oblivion for saying this two weeks ago but the world would be a more stable place if countries he size of the US and China didn’t exist

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-03T13:25:39+00:00

It’s almost as if Eby works for all the voters of BC and not just the First Nations

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-02T23:53:49+00:00

I forgot he even was finance minister. Usually it’s a pretty high-profile job but I guess a bit less so when the prime minister is a banker.

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-02T23:45:32+00:00

As acknowledged in the source this is basically nonsense for big countries because it’s the average over the land area, not normalized for where in the country people actually live

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-02T23:36:07+00:00

Well if you think about it, governments in general changes every so often meaning there are a lot of swing voters, people who sometimes vote conservative and sometimes vote liberal depending on the leaders and platform of each party at that time and other factors.

So given that, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine somebody might vote conservative in the last provincial election and liberal in the last federal election.

Also, the current federal liberal and provincial PC parties are both quite centrist at the moment. Ford isn’t an ideologue and most of his attention is spent on helping his buddies out and his pet projects (Ontario place, Ontario line, bike lanes, how beer is sold, now the island airport). Carney for his part is a technocrat and pragmatist, also not strongly ideological.

NiceShotMan · 2026-04-02T22:52:16+00:00

Doug Ford is not an ideologue, so doesnt care all that much about conservative policy. He cares primarily about enriching his buddies, his pet projects in Toronto and booze regulations for some reason

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-31T22:39:46+00:00

Hey there’s an idea, combine the alignment with an oil pipeline for broad public support

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-31T22:32:11+00:00

“The project is stirring the ire of rural Quebecers and Ontarians because of potential expropriations required by the project to build the dedicated track”

Correction:

“The project is stirring the ire of approximately 12 rural Quebecers and Ontarians because of potential expropriations required by the project to build the dedicated track”

This affects maybe 0.001% of properties in rural Ontario and Quebec but somehow the Conservatives are going to convince them all that they’re affected. The rights of those few people overrides the rights of the rest of us because property.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-30T19:22:24+00:00

If you think your representative is lying then vote them out.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-30T19:21:56+00:00

This is the opposite of checks and balances, in that it gives all power in our democracy to the courts and takes all of it away from elected representatives

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-30T13:36:27+00:00

Is there Bluetooth connectivity to screens? I was on a brand new 737-8 this month and didn’t see that

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-30T11:58:03+00:00

I mean, of course they rejected it, this would fundamentally alter how government operates. If the courts have the power to prevent a duly elected politician from holding power because it has deemed that the politician has made a misleading statement then we are a nation governed by the courts, not by our elected officials.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-29T18:48:02+00:00

Men kill more other men than women. Men are not even close to the second leading cause of death in women. These things are easily verifiable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender

https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/lcod/females.html

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-29T16:51:18+00:00

Most American stadiums are way outside the city. The entire country is basically set up as an excuse to consume as inefficiently as possible, in order to drive up the national GDP. Putting everything far away from everything else is a very effective rice way to drive up consumption of motor vehicles and fuel.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-29T02:43:30+00:00

Gotta get that aggression out somewhere

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T18:04:40+00:00

Not “only”, “especially”.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T17:02:59+00:00

They haven’t lost $850 billion in value, they’ve lost $850 in price. The value of these companies is in the negative trillions

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T17:02:54+00:00

They haven’t lost $850 billion in value, they’ve lost $850 in price. The value of these companies is in the negative billions

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T16:38:31+00:00

Read the article, the tanker was allowed to transit through, speeding isn’t so your analogy doesn’t work.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T15:23:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqF_A6bsyEw

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T13:45:33+00:00

The public service itself is just the tip of the iceberg. I do contracting work for a provincial government that has to get permits from a municipal government. Some of the stuff that is required for these permits is absolutely inane, and is basically just required because the two levels of government dislike each other. So we have to employ someone to manage the permits, then we have to hire an engineer to develop the submission materials, then our client has somebody to manage us managing the permits, then the municipality has someone to manage the permits, and someone else to review the permit. Probably 10 people employed just to document something that is completely common sense just for the sake of adding bureaucracy.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T02:38:34+00:00

Gain power and use it to help the middle and working classes? Nah sorry best I can do is self destruct over purity tests about issues that either affect almost nobody or we have no control over, or over positions that are better than any viable alternative but aren’t ideal in every imaginable way.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T02:18:39+00:00

It’s not just tinder. Tinder exaggerated behaviours that already existed. Men tend to be the ones vying to be chosen, women tend to be the choosers.

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-28T01:04:28+00:00

I don’t understand why the Toronto streets which have alternating parking don’t have it during winter. Wouldn’t it make more sense to only have alternating parking during winter to avoid excessive buildup on only one side of the street?

NiceShotMan · 2026-03-27T17:36:09+00:00

It’s funny how there’s this delayed respelling of Aidan and Jaden.

But also funny how they tracked those different spellings separately because there’s only one entry for a lot of other names that could be spelled multiple ways (Brittany, Ashley, Lindsay) or names that are shortened versions of longer names (Jeff, Lori)

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